Gunnar Wolf - Nice grey life - page 145

Vicm3, you know I’d probably ignore this, as following internet memes goes against my principles. But what are the principles there, if not to break them? Ok, so what you request is, basically, to get a list of sounds to build my life’s soundtrack. Following the list you mentioned, it is quite exhaustive, creative and long. In my case, some other time, I’d probably jump over some über-sarcastic Leo Masliah and the like. Particularly, I would not ever talk about my life without his Todo así. But not today. Today, I’d love my life’s movie to be an old-fashioned, mute...

Of course, this post is about the results for the recent Debian Project Leader elections. Although I’ve written quite a bit about politics in my country, I cannot sadly hold any hopes for decent electoral (or post-electoral, or political in general) results here in Banana-land. All hail our de-facto president, BTW. Anyway, on to happier realms. The DPL elections are over. Voter turnout was low, as Manoj pointed out, but it’s not as low as I feared. And, /methinks, not only because of the shortened period - but because this was generally an easy-going election, with three quite good candidates....

As stated yesterday, I have recently worked on some plugins for Ruby on Rails, and I do think they are usable (and useful!) for audiences larger than myself. So, today I’ll present here the second such plugin. acts_as_catalog implements a really simple but really common pattern - Catalog-tables (or should I say catalog-models?) Granted, the amount of code this plugin saves is not very large, but it does add maintainability for our code-base, and includes basic unit tests. Of course, you can also taka a look at its SVN repo. Models A catalog is defined as a table with only...

I have mostly shifted my main development language to Ruby, as most of the work I do tends to be pretty well covered with Rails. That’s not new, however - What is new is that I feel I have got to the point where I actually have something to share. And it feels very good. So my next couple of posts (three, actually) will be covering some plugins I’ve written. They are, of course, just sketched - but they work reliably enough to be deemed as useful by their author ;-) Today I will start by blogging about RealFK. Of...

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Some readers might not now that Debian is in this annual process where we vote for our Leader for the following next year. I just submitted my vote. I think it is worth mention that this year there is very little discussion on this subject among DDs. Also, I’ve practically seen nobody publicly posting their votes or preferences, as it is usual (well, usually we get maybe 10 votes posted to the planet or the different lists). It must be related to the fact that this year we have neither a candidate or quasi-candidate who raises passions for or against...

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